NVIDIA®’s invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined modern computer graphics, and revolutionized parallel computing. More recently, GPU deep learning ignited modern AI – the next era of computing – with the GPU acting as the brain of computers, robots, and self-driving cars that can perceive and understand the world. Velodyne’s partnership with NVIDIA enables accelerated development of next-generation lidar-enabled autonomous solutions powered by the NVIDIA® Jetson™ platform. Jetson systems provide the performance and power efficiency to run Edge AI applications for autonomous machines faster and with less power.
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| Jetson AGX Orin Dev Kit | Jetson NX Module |
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| Jetson AGX Orin Module (Front) | Jetson AGX Orin Module (Right) |
This system-on-module supports multiple concurrent AI application pipelines with an NVIDIA Ampere architecture GPU, next-generation deep learning and vision accelerators, high-speed IO, and fast memory bandwidth. Now, you can develop solutions using your largest and most complex AI models to solve problems such as natural language understanding, 3D perception, and multi-sensor fusion.
Jetson runs the NVIDIA AI software stack, and use-case specific application frameworks are available, including NVIDIA Isaac™ for robotics, DeepStream for vision AI, and Riva for conversational AI. You can also save significant time with NVIDIA Omniverse™ Replicator for synthetic data generation (SDG), and with NVIDIA TAO toolkit for fine-tuning pretrained AI models from the NGC™ catalog.
Jetson Orin modules are unmatched in performance and efficiency for robots and other autonomous machines, and they give you the flexibility to create the next generation of AI solutions with the latest NVIDIA GPU technology. Together with the world-standard NVIDIA AI software stack and an ecosystem of services and products, your road to market has never been faster.
Jetson AGX Orin 32GB
The NVIDIA Jetson® AGX Orin™ 32GB module delivers up to 200 TOPS of AI performance with power configurable between 15W and 40W. This gives you more than 6X the performance of Jetson AGX Xavier in the same compact form-factor for robotics and other autonomous machine use cases.
Jetson AGX Orin 64GB
The NVIDIA® Jetson AGX Orin™ 64GB module delivers up to 275 TOPS of AI performance with power configurable between 15W and 60W. This gives you more than 8X the performance of Jetson AGX Xavier in the same compact form-factor for robotics and other autonomous machine use cases. Available Fall 2022.
Compatible sensors:
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| Velarray M1600 | Puck | Ultra Puck | Alpha Prime |
Autonomous solutions can do more than just perform tasks. They can learn, adapt and evolve using capabilities like machine learning, computer vision, navigation and more. NVIDIA Jetson systems use the power of deep learning to drive the new era of autonomous solutions.
One use case example is the NVIDIA Carter Robot platform which is a robot developed as a platform to demonstrate the capabilities of the Isaac SDK. The platform is based on a differential drive and uses lidar, including Velodyne’s sensors, and a camera to perceive the world.
Isaac is NVIDIA’s open platform for intelligent robots. The Isaac SDK provides a large collection of powerful GPU-accelerated algorithm GEMs for navigation and manipulation. The Isaac SDK Engine is a framework to easily write modular applications and deploy them on a real robot. Isaac SDK comes with various example applications from basic samples that show specific features to applications that facilitate complicated robotics use cases. Isaac SDK also works hand-in-hand with the Isaac Sim simulation platform, which allows for development, testing and training of robots in a virtual environment.
NVIDIA Jetson is a leading AI-at-the-edge computing platform. Each Jetson system is a complete System-on-Module, with CPU, GPU, PMIC, DRAM and flash storage – saving development time and money. Jetson is also extensible, enabling developers to build custom systems around their specific needs.
